Cousin Camp

This past weekend, my mom, aunts and grandmother put on a fantastic two days of "Cousin Camp"! The kids enjoyed the activities so much...they were sad to leave...but were exhausted!! The kids went up and down the road where mom lives to grandmother's and my two aunt's houses for all kinds of fun...

The crew of cousins...Ty, Liam, Emily, Jonathan, Desirae, Katie, Rylie, Luke and Sierra! There are two older ones as well...Cheyenne and Savannah (not there yet)

Aunt Sherri, Mom (Jan), Aunt Patty

Ty and Jonathan finishing up their hand decorated mugs.

Fun Time on the trampoline!!

Emily playing crack the egg!

Ty and Rylie...aren't they sweet!

Sierra helping Luke climb on up!

Sundaes for everyone!

Sleepover Time!!

The next day was full of fun activities from taking rides in the tractor while bailing hay...
...to making hand decorated individual cakes at Aunt Peggy's house...

The crew with Aunt Peggy above and Uncle Pat below!

...to learning all about Africa from Grandmother...

...figuring out clues that lead to a huge treasure...

...to putting on swimsuits for some fun in the water...

...and lastly fixing smores over the fire!

Looks like Luke loved that smore...or the chocolate anyway!!

Grandmother and her great-grandchildren!

Here are a few decorated cake boxes...Katie's

Liam's

Rylie's

Thank you so very much to Mom, Aunt Patty, Aunt Sherri, Grandmother, Aunt Peggy, Aunt Kay, Aunt Shirley, and Uncle Kenny for all your hard work and love for the babies in our family. I know they all enjoyed it so much...my kids just LOVED it all!!

Swimming Lessons

This past week, Katie had swimming lesssons! She did very well! She finally will go under with no issues and she can actually go somewhere under there as well!! WOOHOO!!

There is her certificate...way to go Katie Mae!!

A Day With Aunt Sunny

We got to spend at great day at the zoo and then swimming with my sister, Sunny, this past Saturday. The carousel was the first thing that caught Rylie's eye!

The girls got a kick out of the huge tortoises. Rylie just kept staring!

The albino crocodile AKA the ghosts of the bayou!

Looks real, huh??

The zoo now has a whole children's area for playing, crafts, and hands on experiences. It was very cool. Here the girls are learning what it feel like to live in a tree.

Making their own tree with fingerpaint and markers!

Feeding the fish...a couple fought for food a little too close and splashed them all! They didn't get quite so close after that!

She can be sweet!!!

Crawling through the tunnel to explore the animal life!

Feeding the birds!! The girls chose worms to feed rather than bird seed. Katie dropped her worms before we got in and Rylie had no problems picking them up one by one for her and putting them back in her container! Katie would have left them...haha!

Aunt Sunny and RyRy feeding together!

Then, the girls got to learn about hardness of rocks from this zoo worker and got to keep a rock!

They drove this jeep right out of the lion habitat!!

Feeding the giraffes!! What a fun treat! This is the first time I've ever seen this set up for the giraffes to get so close!

Chimpanzees...and one was carrying her baby on her tummy...it was the sweetest thing!

We waited all day for this, but we finally made it to the monorail! This little train ride takes you around to see animals that you wouldn't otherwise see from above. The girls really enjoyed it!

Great day at the zoo!

Now we're off to swim at Aunt Sunny's...

Thanks for spending the day with us, Aunt Sunny! We had a great time!